Street-car door.



W. McCOLLUM.

STREET CAR DOOR.

APPLICATION HLED mac. 16. 1913.

1 ,176,579. Patented Mar. 21, 1916.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM llIcCOLLUM, OF LINDALE, GEORGIA.

STREET-CAR DOOR.

Application filed December 16, 1913.

7 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MoCoLLUM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lindale, in the county of Floyd and State of Georgia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Street-Car Doors, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a street car door, and has for its primary object to provide a door wherein passengers can readily en ter and leave a car, the door when being opened for admitting passengers will operate a register, counting the number of passengers boarding the car, thereby obviating the necessity of an attendant for operating the register mechanism, the door being made in two sections so that on passengers making an exit from the car the swinging of the door therefor will not operate the registering mechanism, so that an accurate account of the number of persons entering the car can be had.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a door structure for cars which is simple in construction, reliable and efficient in operation, and inexpensive in manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the drawing :F igure 1 is a vertical transverse sectional view through a car showing the door structure in elevation constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the car body A is constructed with the usual platform B to and from which communication is had with the car by the usual doorway, which is adapted to be normally closed by means of a door hereinafter fully described.

This door embodies in its construction sections 5 and 6, the latter being designed Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 21, 1916.

Serial No. 807,121.

to swing outwardly to permit an exit of the passengers from the car, while the section 5 is adapted to swing inwardly for admitting passengers to the car. These sections 5 and 6 are supported upon hinges 7 which are mounted upon a vertical rod 8, the same being positioned centrally in the door opening, and has its bearing in suitable members fixed to the floor and roof structure of the car body. The platform B is divided by a railing 9 so that passengers will be compelled to enter the car from one side thereof, while the passengers leaving the car will be compelled to alight therefrom at the opposite side.

Mounted in the upper portion of the car is a registering mechanism 10 which is of any ordinary well-known construction, the operating cable 13 of which has connection with the door section 5 so that on the inward swinging thereof the registering mechanism will be automatically actuated so that each passenger admitted to the car will be registered by the register, and in this manner the total number of passengers entering the car will be registered, While those leaving the car will not interfere or cause the operation of the registering mechanism by reason of the independent swing ing movement of the section 6 with respect to the section 5 of the door structure.

From the foregoing, it is thought that the construction and manner of operation of the device will be clearly understood, and therefore a more extended explanation has been omitted.

What is claimed is In a device of the class described, in combination a door frame, a vertical post disposed centrally of said door frame, a collar formed integrally at the lower end of said post, a pair of doors, a pair of hinge elements carried by each of said doors, each of said hinge elements consisting of a metallic strip bent to form parallel sides adapted to be secured in straddling relation upon each of said doors, and having a collar surrounding said posts, one of the hinge elements of one door being supported directly upon said collar of the post, at its lower end, the adjacent hinge element of the other door adapted to rest upon said at one end to said posts and at the opposite last mentioned element, the upper hinge end to the lower end of said doors. 10 element of the second named door and the In testimony whereof I afiix my signaupper hinge element of the first named door ture in presence of two witnesses.

being disposed in a relative super-imposed WILLIAM MCCOLLUM. relation, the hinge element of the first Witnesses:

named door resting upon that of the ad- FRANK RoBERsoN,

jecent door, and retractile springs secured R. I. MoCoLLUM.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

